Nigawes is a powerful forest spirit that looks over the forests of New England into eastern Canada, calling the White Mountains of New Hampshire home [Mount Washington, or more historically relevant: Agiocochook (or Agiochook) and Waumbeket Methna meaning “The place of the Great Spirit”; “The place of the Concealed One.”]. She typically remains in her 'feral' or sprit form as she watches over the forest.  She can however take on her anthro or human form as desired for as long as desired.

Nigawes (Abenaki for "My Mother") has watched over the great forests of northeastern North America for millennia.  Of all the times of her guardianship the past 200 years has been the most difficult with the great arrogance of the peoples of Europe that have overtaken the area and inflicted great harm in such a short time.  She has been patient with these peoples thus far, but her patience is reaching it's end.

Nigawes does not interact with mortal sapients frequently, and keeps what interaction she does have limited to those who have demonstrated a reverence for the forest, a good heart, and the ability to be discrete... and usually also a need to know, but that is not always the case.

Nigawes noticed Reshu not long after her arrival in the north country, probably in the warm season of 1931.  What caught her attention first was the presence of a sapient with strong magic, which could be a potential threat, so she purposed to learn more about this new arrival.  She was surprised to discover a Kitsune in her domain, for though she was aware of such, she had never had any in her domain before.

Over the next several years Nigawes saw in Reshu a gentle soul, one that not only was respectful and gentle with other sapients, but also who's respect extended to the forest itself and it's inhabitants, sapient, sentient, or otherwise.  She also saw a soul that was broken and hurting from a relatively new and profound wound, and took pity on her.

Nigawes revealed herself to Reshu in the spring of 1933, about three years after Nami's death.  In the months and years to follow Nigawes and Reshu would forge a bond that was deeper than most friendships.

Today, Nigawes continues to maintain a relationship with Reshu, typically meeting a few times every year or two.  Reshu has been discrete about her friendship with a forest spirit, a goddess, only letting her most intimate friends know, and always with Nigawes' permission first.

Nigawes may have had one or more intimate visits with Reshu over the years, but learning more about such, if true at all, will be a difficult task indeed. ;)  Nigawes is not a strongly sexual individual, though that is in part driven by necessity given her rather solitary and enduring existence.  If she allows herself (and such spirits have much greater ability to modulate their sexual desires than mortal sapients), she can be profoundly lustful and amorous.

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For some additional readings on Abenaki tales and history, here and here are starting points.